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Definition of Alaska cedar

1. Noun. Tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alaska Cedar

Literary usage of Alaska cedar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alaska, the Great Country by Ella Higginson (1908)
"The alaska cedar is yellowish and lacy in appearance, with a graceful droop to the branches. ... The alaska cedar is the most prized of all the cedars. ..."

2. Mount Rainier, a Record of Exploration by Edmond Stephen Meany (1916)
"alaska cedar. The alaska cedar ranges on the mountain slopes from 3500 feet up to 6000 feet altitude. It is far more abundant on the north side of the peak ..."

3. Mazama: A Record of Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest by Or Mazamas (Portland, Mazamas (Portland, Or.) (1907)
"alaska cedar. At no distant date the alaska cedar grew luxuriantly about Slate Mountain and on its southern slope, where some individual trees ..."

4. Alaska: Its Meaning to the World, Its Resources, Its Opportunities by Charles Richard Tuttle (1914)
"... for lumber on the coast region are in point of numbers and value, the western hemlock, the Sitka spruce, western red cedar and yellow or alaska cedar. ..."

5. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"... finger- like tops all pointing in the same direction, or drooping gracefully like leaves of grass, and the airy, feathery, brownish-green alaska cedar. ..."

6. Fifth Avenue to Alaska by Edward Pierrepont (1884)
"The red and yellow fir abound ; and the alaska cedar, of a bright amber yellow, capable of a very high polish, beautiful to the eye and exceedingly fragrant ..."

7. Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1885)
"... the Prince of Wales Island is another home of the yellow or alaska cedar. It was named by Vancouver, and when the Coast Survey changed his name of the ..."

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